Mouat Street, between High and Croke Streets.
The first owner of Lot 53 (and Lot 54) noted by [[../hitchcock.html|Hitchcock]] was [[../people/samsonlionel.html|Lionel Samson]].
Hitchcock, writing in 1919, describing this part of Mouat Street as it was in 1869, doesn't have much to discuss:
On portion of the site of [[../buildings/strelitz.html|Strelitz’s Buildings]] there stood an old two-storied house with gable ends, and next to it was a first-class boarding house conducted by Mr. [[../people/hendersonjohn.htm.|John Henderson]], under the sign of ‘Auld Reekie’. The only other buildings in Mouatt-street were Stotter’s cottages, which still stand, and a small cottage which stood about midway between Croke and High-streets.
References and Links
Fremantle History Centre. Look for the PDFs called:
Purchasers of Fremantle Town Lots 1829-1837
Purchasers of Fremantle Town Lots 1855-1879
Hitchcock, J.K. 1919, [[../books/hitchcock1919.html|'Early Days of Fremantle: High Street 50 Years Ago']], Fremantle Times, one of a series of articles on 'Early Days of Fremantle' publ. 21 March - 20 June 1919.
[[../hitchcock.html|Hitchcock]], 1929.
This page incorporates material from Garry Gillard's Freotopia website, that he started in 2014 and the contents of which he donated to Wikimedia Australia in 2024. The content was originally created on 18 December, 2022 and hosted at freotopia.org/lots/53.html (it was last updated on 19 December, 2022), and has been edited since it was imported here (see page history). The donated data is also preserved in the Internet Archive's collection.